"Books never really end. They stay with you, good or bad, and can float into your mind quite without warning. Years later, the faint embers of a line drift across your conscience or a place you have visited only in print flickers by. The name of a character whirls around the brain like that of a primary school classmate. Books take root. A book alters you, only in a minor way and sometimes fleetingly, but you're never completely the same when you've finished as you were on page one."Daniel Gray in Scribbles in the Margins 50 Eternal Delights of Books

CBC Books: The best Canadian fiction of 2018See more

2018 was a great year for books. But which books were the best books? Here are CBC Books's top 25 best Canadian works of fiction that came out in 2018.